Mick Mountz: What happens inside those massive warehouses?
Mick Mountz: Wat gebeurt er in die enorme magazijnen?
Mick Mountz is the founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, making high-tech products for fast, cheap and efficient inventory fulfillment. In March 2012, Kiva was acquired by Amazon. Full bio
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breakthrough new approach
inventory inside of a warehouse.
pack and ship setting here.
verpakken en verzenden.
hundreds of mobile robots,
met honderden mobiele robots,
of mobile robots,
die door het magazijn bewegen.
And I'll get to the solution.
dat je iets online hebt besteld.
you ordered something online.
on your couch
absolutely had to have this red t-shirt.
dat rode T-shirt moest hebben.
into your shopping cart.
in je winkelwagen.
that green pair of pants
pair of shoes — click!
assembled your order.
for a moment that
"submit order."
shows up on your doorstep.
verscheen het pakketje bij je voordeur.
like, wow, there's my goo.
wauw, daar zijn mijn spullen.
how those items of inventory
hoe die dingen in de doos kwamen
that box in the warehouse?
it's that guy right there.
dat het die kerel is, daar.
middle of that picture,
pick-pack worker
order fulfillments setting.
of fullfillment-omgeving.
spend 60 or 70 percent of their day
60 tot 70 procent van hun tijd
the warehouse.
as much as 5 or 10 miles
those items of inventory.
unproductive way to fill orders,
onproductieve manier van orderpicken,
unfulfilling way to fill orders.
first bumped into this problem.
tegen dit probleem opliep.
in '99, 2000, the dot com boom.
tijdens de internetbubble.
spectacular flame-out called Webvan.
eendagsvlieg Webvan.
dollars met het idee
millions of dollars with the notion that
grocery orders online.
zouden gaan bezorgen.
that we couldn't do it cost effectively.
het niet goedkoop genoeg kon.
that was very hard and very costly.
to assemble 30 items of inventory
to deliver to the home.
thuis te bezorgen.
it was costing us 30 dollars.
89¢ can of soup
pick and pack into that tote.
en in de zak te stoppen.
tried to deliver it to the home.
het thuis gingen bezorgen.
during my one year at Webvan,
tijdens mijn jaar bij Webvan
all the material-handling providers
specifically to solve each base picking.
those three things in a box.
in een doos te stoppen.
got to be a better way to do this.
manier zijn om dat te doen.
was set up to pump
goo to retail stores.
and about a year and a half later,
en ongeveer anderhalf jaar later
It was still nagging at me.
Het knaagde aan me.
thinking about it again.
on what I wanted as a pick worker,
wat ik wilde als orderpicker.
how it should work.
on the problem.
I want to do is I want to put
in deze doos stoppen.
in this box right here.
my hand and — poof! —
en -- hop! --
and I pack it into the order,
en ik pak het in.
approach to solving the problem.
waar de persoon centraal staat.
is available to solve this problem?
om dat op te lossen?
and go, products can come and go.
komen en gaan.
pick worker the center of the problem,
om de orderpicker centraal te stellen
them as productive as possible.
zo productief mogelijk te zijn.
arrive at this notion?
a brainstorming exercise,
that many of you use,
velen van jullie zullen gebruiken.
testing your ideas.
-- oneindig, nul.
at the limits — infinity, zero.
challenged ourselves with the idea:
onszelf uit met het idee:
distribution center in China,
bouwen in China,
very low-cost market?
land is cheap.
an hour for direct labor
een miljoen m2 bouwen?
square-foot distribution center?"
led to ideas that said,
in the warehouse."
zero dollars per hour,
voor nul dollar per uur
warehouse every morning at 8 a.m.,
pick up one item of inventory
jij houd een pak sap beet,
you hold the Mountain Dew,
otherwise just stand there.
you guys talk amongst yourselves.
mag de rest gezellig kletsen,
pick it, put it in the tote, away it goes."
verpakken en versturen.
could walk and talk on their own?
zelf zou kunnen lopen en praten?
very powerful way
organize this warehouse.
labor isn't free,
versus awesome spectrum.
We'll put them on mobile shelving.
we'll move the inventory around.
en rijden de inventaris daarop rond.
then I'm sitting on my couch in 2008.
en toen zat ik daar op mijn bank in 2008.
Olympics, the opening ceremonies?
van de Olympische Spelen gezien?
couch when I saw this.
toen ik dat zag.
the warehouse floor, the stadium floor.
op de vloer van het magazijn, het stadion.
actually relates to the idea
had het idee te maken
incredibly powerful, impressive digital art,
indrukwekkende digitale kunst maken.
I'm told,
coordination and communication.
en communicatie.
I'll squat down.
some fabulous art.
power of emergence
mogelijk wordt in systemen,
start to talk with each other.
bit of the journey.
the practical reality of this idea?
that has about 10,000 different SKUs.
en verzendcentrum dat 10.000 SKU's heeft.
green pens, yellow Post-It Notes.
en gele memobriefjes.
naar de blauwe stellingen
out to pick up the blue shelving pods.
de zijkant van het gebouw.
to the side of the building.
get to stay on the perimeter.
to pick up the shelves,
deliver them straight to the pick worker.
en bezorg ze bij de orderpicker.
is completely different.
the warehouse, she gets to stay still
in het magazijn,
zoals hier.
building can now come to her.
komen naar haar toe.
is very productive.
scan the bar code, pack it out.
scan het, pak het in,
you turn around,
ready to be picked and packed.
out all of the non-value added
wasting, waited time,
high-fidelity way to pick these orders,
een hoogstaande manier van orderpicken.
a laser, scan the UPC barcode,
scant de barcode,
which box it needs to go into.
accurate and, it turns out,
blijkt interessanter te worden.
environment for these pick workers.
the whole order.
not just a part of the order.
in control of their environment.
of this approach
hebben ons echt verbaasd.
to be more productive.
pervasive this way of thinking
deze manier van denken doorwerkte
functions in the warehouse.
is doing inside of the DC
het distributiecentrum
parallel processing engine.
verwerkingsmachine.
cross-fertilization of ideas.
een kruisbestuiving van ideeën.
and we're thinking about
dat doet denken aan parallelle verwerking
supercomputer architectures.
aan de rechterkant van het scherm
the right side of the screen
orderpickers zijn geworden.
autonomous pick workers.
to leave and go to the bathroom,
productivity of the other nine workers.
op de productiviteit van de andere negen.
traditional method of using a conveyor.
de traditionele transportband.
passes the order to you,
and pass it downstream.
for that serial process to work.
staan bij die keten.
way to think about the warehouse.
over het magazijn.
interesting in that we're tracking
hoe populair producten zijn.
of the products.
and adaptive algorithms
of the warehouse.
het magazijn te fijnregelen.
the week leading up to Valentine's Day.
is de week voor Valentijnsdag.
moved to the front of the building
naar de voorkant van het gebouw.
lot of orders in those pick stations.
op de orderpickplekken.
and that candy, the leftover candy,
is het snoep dat nog over is,
back of the warehouse
van het magazijn gegaan.
zone on the thermal map there.
van deze temperatuurkaart.
approach using the parallel processing
van deze parallelle verwerking
scale to ginormous.
two pick stations, 20 pick stations,
path planning algorithms
het route-algoritme
algorithms just work.
blijven werken.
see that the inventory
dat de hele inventaris
perimeter of the building
the pick stations were.
out for themselves.
just one final video
this comes to bear
day in the life of.
van de orderpicker.
to move inventory along the highway
into these pick stations.
in each station,
across the highway
get into a queuing system
to the pick worker.
aan de orderpicker voor te leggen.
aan de snelheid van de orderpicker.
adapt the speed of the pick workers.
and the slower pickers get few.
en de langzamere minder.
literally having that experience
The product jumps into it.
en het product valt erin.
she puts it in the bucket.
is kind of behind the scenes.
speelt zich op de achtergrond af.
picking and packing portion of her job.
op het pakgedeelte van haar taak.
never has to leave her mat.
en hoeft nooit van haar plek af.
not only a more productive
een productievere manier
way to fill orders.
van bestellingen pakken.
fulfilling way to fill orders.
that, though, is that workers
buildings now compete
in the Kiva zone that day.
them on testimonial videos
day to play with their grandchildren,
om met hun kleinkinderen te spelen
Kiva zone is so stress-free
"Het Kiva-gedeelte geeft zo weinig stress
my blood pressure medication."
so they told us not to use that video.
dus dat mochten we niet gebruiken.
with today is the notion that
en productiviteit ontstaan
to think and walk
processes and productivities can emerge.
laat denken, lopen en praten.
you go to your front step
naar je voordeur loopt,
you just ordered online,
the goo is in there,
as to whether a robot
of een robot heeft geholpen
and packing of that order.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mick Mountz - CEO, Kiva SystemsMick Mountz is the founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, making high-tech products for fast, cheap and efficient inventory fulfillment. In March 2012, Kiva was acquired by Amazon.
Why you should listen
With the growing popularity of online shopping, Mick Mountz and his company are finding ways to make picking, packing and shipping those purchases a flexible and inexpensive process. He first began working on this hidden challenge while at Webvan, an online grocer. In 2003, he took his experience there and founded Kiva systems, a company whose innovative solutions have led to it being listed by Inc. as one of the fastest growing companies.
In March 2012, Kiva was acquired by Amazon for $775 million.
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